GILES COUNTY, Tennessee -- Two 18-wheelers crashed on Interstate 65 in Giles County early Tuesday, sending an Athens couple to the hospital.

(Contributed by WHNT News 19)

Tennessee Highway Patrol said the call came in at 2 a.m. and troopers responded to the wreck near mile marker four. The northbound side was cut down to one lane.

AL.com's news partner, WHNT News 19, reports one of the trucks was heading toward a weigh station when the other slammed into it from behind. Pineapples from the first truck and other debris were scattered across the road.

WHNT reports a husband and wife who were in the second truck were trapped for 45 minutes before being rescued then flown to Huntsville Hospital with serious injuries. The other driver was not seriously injured.